I've never met a scientist whose actual research or theorizing was influenced by philosophy of science. The philosophers are just shouting into the void.https://twitter.com/hardsci/status/1127260246689239041 …
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Popularized by Fisher, significance testing is used by physicists. "the LHCb collaboration announced the discovery of a new narrow pentaquark particle, Pc(4312)+, decaying to a J//ψ and a proton, with a statistical significance of 7.3 standard deviations" http://lhcb-public.web.cern.ch/lhcb-public
Sir R A Fisher was a geneticist and statistician, not a philosopher, right?
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Significance testing and p-values were commonplace in the 1800s. For example, Benjamin Peirce and Charles Sanders Peirce submitted a p-value in 1867 as expert witnesses (Howland Will). https://www.jstor.org/stable/2287637
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AFAIK Laplace was one of the first to suggest significance testing. He was a practicing physicist (natural philosopher). He also suggested applying it in the courtroom (w/priors)pic.twitter.com/zZYZAUecBQ
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what makes him not a philosopher besides your linguistic whim?
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Confusing necessary and sufficient conditions
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Fisher was the Galton Chair of National Eugenics at UCL. Fisher was unfit for a statistics professorship, and his applications were rejected.https://books.google.se/books?id=EATaBwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=neyman+from+life&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjllprzv5biAhWtAhAIHdu-B38Q6AEIKjAA#v=onepage&q=oppenheimer&f=false …
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What was Mach?
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Mach put the phenomenological cart before the scientific horse.https://www.nature.com/articles/113927b0 …
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